Tony Williams writes:

I have nothing to do with this job, but it might be interesting to your readers since they specifically mention Stan as a desired skill.

From the link:

Data Scientist, Baseball Research & Development

The Cleveland Guardians Baseball Research & Development (R&D) group is seeking data scientists at a variety of experience levels . . . You will analyze video, player tracking, and biomechanics data as well as traditional baseball data sources like box scores to help us acquire and develop baseball players into a championship-caliber team. . . .

Qualifications

– Demonstrated experience or advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Machine Learning, or Operations Research.

– Programming skills in a language such as R or Python to work efficiently at scale with large data sets.

– Desire to continue learning about data science applications in baseball.

And then in the Preferred Experience section, along with “Demonstrated research experience in a sports context (baseball is a plus)” and “Experience with computer vision” and a few other things, they have:

– Experience with Bayesian statistics and languages such as Stan.

How cool is that??

And, hey! I just looked it up . . . the Guardians have a winning record this year and they’re headed for the playoffs! Nothing like the Cleveland MLB teams I remember from my childhood . . .